Anti-Corruption Reforms

• Judicial

• Executive

• Legislative

• Fighting conflicts of interests - anyone in charge of making policy needs to do the following:

  • Place their assets (business, stocks, etc) into a blind trust

  • Release their tax returns

    • This has a two-pronged effect: 1) Relieves conflict of interest, and 2) discourages people who have ulterior motives from getting into politics.

Anti-Trust

• Break up monopolies to increase competition in the marketplace, spur innovation, and decrease prices

• Decrease corporate involvement in government to decrease their interference with breaking them up

Arts

• Increased Spending on the Arts

• Which increases quality of life for all

Campaign Finance Reform

• Abolish Citizens United, for starters, which is a stain on this country's democracy

Consumer Protection

• Strengthen consumer protection laws

Cybersecurity

• Expose software makers to risk and liability when their products are found to be negligently maintained

• Strengthen CISA

Early Childhood Development

• Programs to promote positive early childhood development

• This is the most important time in a child’s life, and can create wildly drastic outcomes based on a child’s experience during this time

• Create programs that help ensure every child has access to a solid place to be when they land on planet earth

Education

• K-12

  • Meaningful education reforms based on hard data and examples from other countries

  • Girls mature faster than boys during their early years. What to do?

  • Teach second language from a young age (5 y/o)

• Higher Education

  • Reform predatory college loans

  • Immigration reforms that allow high performing graduates to stay in the U.S. and contribute to the economy; prevent brain drain

Energy Policy

• Decrease dependence on foreign energy sources

• Further develop green energy sources

Environmental

• Clean air

• Clean energy

• Clean water

Food and Drug Regulation

• Break up the FDA into “Food Administration” and “Drug Administration”

• Get food manufacturing lobbyists out of food regulation.

Foreign Policy

• Learning From Our Mistakes

  • Iraqi and Afghani wars resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths

  • It also increased our deficit by more than 7 trillion dollars

  • Created instability everywhere around the world that has affected the world for decades

  • This was terrible. Period. Any way you look at it

  • We are constantly repeating these mistakes. Stop.

Freedom of Speech

• Use of public office to selectively punish protected speech (such as targeted tax audits, criminal investigations, or other such abuse of government power) is a punishable offense

• There will consequences for attempting to take away others rights

Gross Domestic Happiness - we need a new metric to measure success in America.

Gun Control

• Actual gun control: prevent school shootings. Duh

Healthcare

• Universal healthcare is a human right

Immigration and Immigrants

• Sensible immigration reform

Infrastructure

• Reimagining existing infrastructure

• Repair aging infrastructure

• Walkable cities

Homelessness

• What are other countries doing that works better than our terrible system?

Housing

• Make housing easier to build.

Human Rights

• Disability Rights

• LGBTQIA+ Rights

• Men's Rights and Policy Reforms

• Minority Rights

• Women's Rights

Mental Health Reforms

Audit of the Department of Defense

• The DoD is necessary for the sovereignty of America

• Under the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1991, every federal department is required to under go an audit

• The DoD finally underwent an audit for the first time in 2019. It failed that audit as incomplete

• If we went to save money, we need to modernize the DoD, and make it operationally more efficient

NATO

• Restrengthen our commitment to democratic nations

• Weaken ties with autocratic nations

• Put safeguards in place to reassure our allies

New Fairness Doctrine

• Get rid of one-sided state media

Prison and Criminal Justice Reforms

• Tough reform, not punishment

• Psychology and study based approach to criminal reform designed to create the best outcomes for the individual, and not just punish the person, which holds the possibility of recidivism, or additional criminal behavior.

• This in turn leads to more positive outcomes, and more productive citizens overall

Privacy

• Human right to privacy, while still enabling a more transparent government the ability to investigate unlawful behavior that harms others

Public Spaces

• Reinvestment in public spaces

• There are few free places left to coexist, and we lose more of these spaces every day

Public Transportation

• Make public transport easier to build, and more accessible for everyone

Social Media

• Policies addressing addiction to social media

• Policies addressing malicious foreign actors use of social media to influence citizens domestically

• Social media and teens

Tax Reform

• Increase tax on the rich without scaring them off

  • Make paying taxes cool again (they used to be paid with civic pride)

• Simplify tax code and get rid of loopholes

• Tax rates that consider net worth

  • Same salary: low net worth, lower taxes. Higher net worth, higher taxes. Make it easier for people with less to become wealthy

Technology

• Internet access is a human right

  • Internet access can never be taken away from anyone, ever

  • Bring Back Net Neutrality

  • All Internet Traffic Should Be Treated Equally

• Open source software mandates

  • Software critical in deciding the fate of a citizen, or an election, is required to be open source

  • This would include an algorithm that is designed to make a decision in court

Voter’s Rights

• Free and fair elections

• End gerrymandering

• Mandatory voting, such as in Australia

Workers Rights

• Paid maternity/paternity leave

• Mandated vacation leave

• Better working hours

• Policies surrounding mass layoffs

• Right to organize

  • Critical reforms for labor unions

  • Critical reforms to allow labor to organize